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Brought to you by Penguin. Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitford's bestselling novel The Pursuit of Love. 'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too.' She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. 'Mine's silver lame, it smells like...

Jane Austen wrote Love and Friendship (originally spelled Love and Freindship [ sic]) when she was just 14 years old. The three notebooks that contain her early works, including this story, are currently on display at the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. Taking the form as letters written by the heroine to the daughter of her friend, this story resembles a fairy tale that lampoons the conventions of romantic stories at the time.

For anyone who's in love - or hopes to be - what greater celebration could there be than to hear the world's greatest love poetry read lovingly by Richard Armitage? With 13 poems by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more, Classic Love Poems is a listening treat for Valentine's Day - or any day.

Have you ever wondered why silence is sometimes the loudest voice of all? Mansfield Park is widely considered Jane Austen's most ambitious and psychologically complex novel. Unlike her lighter works, this story delves into the quieter, more resilient strength of the human spirit, exposing the fragility of Regency social order and the profound difference between superficial charm and genuine moral worth.

SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit whose acronym stands for “Death to Spies,” is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a catastrophic hammer blow to the heart of the British Secret Service. The lure? A beautiful woman who needs 007’s help. Tatiana Romanova is a Russian spy who promises to hand over the prized Spektor decoding machine if Bond aids her defection. Bond suspects a trap but can’t resist the opportunity to give the British the upper hand in a chilling new front of the Cold War.

Have you ever wondered why first impressions are so often wrong, and why love has a way of finding us when we least expect it? Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a brilliant dissection of human nature and the delicate dance of courtship. In a world where financial security depends on marriage, Elizabeth Bennet refuses to settle. When the enigmatic Mr. Darcy arrives, their initial clash of pride and prejudice gives way to one of literature's most compelling emotional journeys.

Nina Stibbe came to fame with Love, Nina, a memoir of her time working as a nanny in 1980s literary London. It won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards, and was adapted into a hit BBC TV series. She has since written six more books, four of them novels, and a sparkling selection of her work is included here, alongside two fascinating interviews with Nina herself.

By the legendary Queen of Crime, this all-new collection of stories about love gone wrong will get your heart racing. Love can propel us to our greatest heights…and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love – crimes of passion...

Have you ever wondered why the battle between your head and your heart is the hardest fight of all? Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is a brilliant exploration of the two conflicting forces that drive human behavior: the restraint of social convention and the overwhelming power of raw emotion.

The eldest of the notorious Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford was renowned for her comic novels of upper-class life. An aristocrat and socialite, she mingled with the 'Bright Young Things' in interwar London, and went on to satirise their foibles in razor-sharp, wickedly funny prose. Collected here are adaptations of her two best sellers, the semi-autobiographical The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, her delightful biography of Louis XV's chief mistress, and a pair of fascinating programmes exploring her own unconventional life.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford, read by Kristin Atherton. The formidable fox-hunting obsessed Lady Bobbin has put together a Christmas house party at Compton Bobbin, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple...

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections.

Have you ever wondered why we let our prejudices blind us to true love? The arrival of the wealthy Mr. Bingley and his stoic companion, Mr. Darcy, sends the Bennet household into a frenzy. For the intelligent and independent Elizabeth Bennet, it is the beginning of a complex dance of manners, misunderstandings, and sharp social satire. While her sister Jane falls for the gentle Bingley, Elizabeth clashes with the proud Mr. Darcy.

Have you ever wondered why the heart remains loyal even after hope is gone? In Jane Austen's most mature novel, Persuasion, Anne Elliot lives with the quiet agony of a past mistake. Swayed by a trusted mentor eight years ago, she rejected the man she loved—Captain Frederick Wentworth—because he lacked wealth and status. Now, the tables have turned. Anne's vain family is on the brink of ruin, while Wentworth returns from war a wealthy, eligible bachelor. As fate forces them back into the same social circle, Anne must navigate the painful awkwardness of his apparent indifference.

Crowned ‘the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation’ by EM Forster, DH Lawrence has an undisputed place in England's canon of great authors. In this wide-ranging collection, dramatisations and readings of some of his major works are brought together, exploring themes such as romantic love and sexual desire, individual freedom, class division, war, the beauty of nature and the ugliness of industrialisation.

Brought to you by Penguin. Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences...

The course of true love never did run smooth.... When Fitzwilliam Darcy departs Hunsford after his disastrous proposal to Elizabeth Bennet, he does not expect their paths to cross again. Indeed, knowing the lady's true feelings for him, he makes every effort to see that they do not. But when a chance encounter leaves him stranded in an abandoned cottage with the one woman he can never have, Darcy quickly realizes there is more at risk than just Elizabeth's reputation.

With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world.

INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKIN 'No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure' JILLY COOPER Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for...